Former Sunday School, By Methodist Chapel

SO 82 NE DEERHURST SCHOOL LANE, Lower Apperley (north side)

3/62 Former Sunday School, by Methodist Chapel II Former Moravian, later Methodist Chapel, now store. 1750 for Moravian Brethren. Flemish bond brickwork, tiled roof. Two- window front, single storey. Gable to road, circular window high up; right return central, boarded door, flat, rubbed brick head. Either side 2-light mullion and transom window, cambered brick arch; dentil eaves course. Congregation gathered following George Whitefield's preaching, probably with use of a building by 1747; became Moravian soon after, for whom present building erected 1750. Leased to Methodists early C19, as chapel, bought by them 1846. Became Sunday School when new chapel built 1901, and adjoining cottage rebuilt (neither of special interest). One of very few surviving Moravian chapels in Gloucestershire. (A. Dallimore, George Whitefield, Vol II, 1980; C.F. Stell, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, 1986)

Listing NGR: SO8589627615